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616: A Higher Bar or an Obstacle Course? Peer Review and Organizational Decision-Making in an International Development Bureaucracy

Ranil Dissanayake and Euan Ritchie

615: The Global Inequality Boomerang

Ravi Kanbur, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Andy Sumner

614: What Is the Point of Schooling? The Politics of Education Policy in Tanzania Since 1961

Ken Opalo

613: Meeting Health Challenges in Developing Asia with Corrective Taxes on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Unhealthy Foods

Chris Lane

612: Priorities for Strengthening Key Revenue Sources in Asia

Sanjeev Gupta and Joao Jalles

611: Fiscal Policy for Inclusive Growth in Asia

Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta and Joao Jalles

610: The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Michael Clemens

609: Learning Loss and Student Dropouts during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Evidence Two Years after Schools Shut Down

Laura Moscoviz and David Evans

608: The Long-Run Decline of Education Quality in the Developing World

Alexis Le Nestour, Laura Moscoviz and Justin Sandefur

607: COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Rollout in Historical Perspective

Amanda Glassman, Charles Kenny and George Yang

606: Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility

Michael Clemens

605: Decentralized Purchasing of Essential Medicines and Its Impact on Availability, Prices, and Quality: A Review of Current Evidence

Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy and Prashant Yadav

604: Adolescent Refugee Girls’ Secondary Education in Ethiopia: An Empirical Analysis of Multiple Vulnerabilities in Low-Resource Displacement Settings

Shelby Carvalho

603: Persistent Gender Gaps in Business Profits in Indonesia: Implications for COVID-19 Recovery Policies

Mayra Buvinic, James Knowles and Firman Witoelar

602: The Impact of Private Schools, School Chains, and Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries

Lee Crawfurd and Susannah Hares

601: The Paradox of Gender Equality and Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Land Rights

Evelyn Wamboye

600: How to Measure Student Absenteeism in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

David Evans and Amina Acosta

599: Small and Medium Enterprises Amidst the Pandemic and Reopening: Digital Edge and Transformation

Lin Cong, Xiaohan Yang and Xiaobo Zhang

598: Building State Capacity: What Is the Impact of Development Projects?

Vincenzo Di Maro, David Evans, Stuti Khemani and Thiago Scot

597: Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from across Sub-Saharan Africa

David Evans, Susannah Hares, Peter Holland and Amina Acosta

596: Understanding Education Policy Preferences: Survey Experiments with Policymakers in 35 Developing Countries

Lee Crawfurd, Susannah Hares, Ana Minardi and Justin Sandefur

595: How to Recruit Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools: A Systematic Review of Evidence from Low- And Middle-Income Countries

David Evans and Amina Acosta

594: Girls’ Education at Scale

David Evans, Amina Acosta and Fei Yuan

593: Labour Mobility with Vocational Skill: Australian Demand and Pacific Supply

Satish Chand and Michael Clemens

592: Whatever Happened to Privatization? The World Bank and Divestiture: 1980–2020

John Nellis

591: Live Tutoring Calls Did Not Improve Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone

Lee Crawfurd, David Evans, Susannah Hares and Justin Sandefur

590: Innovation Strategy and Economic Development

Matias Braun, Sebastián Bustos and Luis Cespedes

589: Three New Estimates of India’s All-Cause Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abhishek Anand, Justin Sandefur and Arvind Subramanian

588: Are Budget Neutral Income Floors Fiscally Viable in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Nora Lustig, Jon Jellema and Valentina Pabon

587: The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Emerging Findings from Kenya, the Philippines, South Africa, and Uganda

Diana Beatriz Bayan, Carleigh Krubiner, Edwine Barasa, Claire Biribawa, Alexander Broadbent, Lyle Casas, Kalipso Chalkidou, Y-Ling Chi, Herkulaas Combrink, Okethwangu Denis, Mary Kaakyo, Evelyn Kabia, Kadondi Kasera, Jacob Kazungu, Morris Ogero, Stacey Orangi, Anton Paterno, Lydia Regan, Benjamin Smart, Piet Streicher, Justin Tan, Nazarius Tumwesigye, Valerie Ulep, Jhanna Uy, Vanessa Van and Damian Walker

586: The Unfolding of Women’s Economic Empowerment Outcomes: Time Path of Impacts in an Indonesia Trial

Mayra Buvinic, James Knowles and Firman Witoelar

585: Texts Don’t Nudge: An Adaptive Trial to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in India

Girija Bahety, Sebastian Bauhoff, Dev Patel and James Potter

584: Can Africa Help Europe Avoid Its Looming Aging Crisis?

Charles Kenny and George Yang

583: The Insurance Cascade Framework to Diagnose Bottlenecks and Improve the Effectiveness of Health Insurance Programs: An Application to India

Sebastian Bauhoff and Nikkil Sudharsanan

582: Win-Win? The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and its Impacts on the Pakistani Economy

David Landry

581: Do High-Stakes Exams Promote Consistent Educational Standards?

Jack Rossiter, Might Abreh, Aisha Ali and Justin Sandefur

580: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Health Insurance Claims for High-Burden Diseases in the Philippines

Valerie Ulep, Anton Paterno, Jhanna Uy, Vanessa Van, Lyle Casas and Justin Tan

579: Should Governments and Donors Prioritize Investments in Foundational Literacy and Numeracy?

David Evans and Susannah Hares

578: Management, Supervision, and Healthcare: A Field Experiment

Felipe Dunsch, David Evans, Ezinne Eze-Ajoku and Mario Macis

577: Addressing the COVID-19 Crisis’s Indirect Health Impacts for Women and Girls

Carleigh Krubiner, Megan O’Donnell, Julia Kaufman and Shelby Bourgault

576: The Gendered Dimensions of Social Protection in the COVID-19 Context

Megan O’Donnell, Mayra Buvinic, Shelby Bourgault and Brian Webster

570: Assessing the Indirect Health Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya

Edwine Barasa, Jacob Kazungu, Stacey Orangi, Evelyn Kabia, Morris Ogero and Kadondi Kasera

569: Health Systems Impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines

Diana Beatriz Bayani and Soon Tan

568: More Problems More Money? Does China Lend More to African Countries with Higher Credit Risk Levels?

David Landry and Gailyn Portelance

567: Can COVID-19 Induce Governments to Implement Tax Reforms in Developing Countries?

Sanjeev Gupta and Joao Jalles

566: The New Era of Unconditional Convergence

Dev Patel, Justin Sandefur and Arvind Subramanian

565: Towards Improved and More Transparent Ethics in Randomised Controlled Trials in Development Social Science

David Evans

564: We Should Be Spending More of Available Aid in Poorer Countries, Not Less

Charles Kenny

563: The Educational Impacts of Cash Transfers in Tanzania

David Evans, Charles Gale and Katrina Kosec

562: Measuring the Development Impact of the IFC and Development Finance

Charles Kenny and George Yang